Now You See Me -Movie Review

I recently watched the Movie 'Now You See Me' and I was totally fascinated by it. This movie fulfilled my expectations and I recommend it for all of you to watch!

Summary:
Now You See Me is a 2013 American caper thriller film directed by French director Louis Leterrier starring an international cast. It was released on May 31, 2013. Despite the mixed reviews from critics, the film has proved to be a box office success, and a sequel has been officially confirmed.

Four street magicians—J. Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves, Jack Wilder, and Merritt McKinney—are brought together by an unknown benefactor and, one year later, perform in Las Vegas as "The Four Horsemen", sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. For the finale, a member of the audience is invited to help them in their next trick: robbing a bank. That member in an audience is Étienne Forcier, account holder at Credit Republicain de Paris bank. Forcier is apparently teleported to a bank in Paris, where he activates an air-duct that vacuums up the money and showers it onto the crowd in Las Vegas.

Upon discovering that the money really is missing from the bank vault, FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is called to investigate the theft and is partnered with Interpol agent Alma Dray. They interrogate the Four Horsemen, but release them when no explanation can be found. Rhodes meets Thaddeus Bradley, an ex-magician who makes money by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks. Bradley was in the audience and deduced that the Four Horsemen stole the money weeks before, and manipulated the audience's perception of current events.

Rhodes, Dray, and Bradley attend the Four Horsemen's next performance in New Orleans. The group's finale involves them stealing roughly $140 million from Tressler's bank account and distributing it to the audience, composed of people whose insurance claims had been denied or reduced by Tressler's company. Rhodes attempts to arrest the Four Horsemen, but they escape with help from audience members. An infuriated Tressler hires Bradley to expose and humiliate the Four Horsemen in their next performance. Later, while researching the Four Horsemen's background, Dray learns about rumors of a secret society of magicians called "The Eye" and suggests to a skeptical Rhodes the case might be tied to a magician named Lionel Shrike, whom Bradley had exposed 30 years earlier and who was so embarrassed that he undertook a dangerous underwater stunt and drowned.

The Four Horsemen are located in New York, but they escape during the raid to arrest them. However, Wilder is apparently killed when he crashes a stolen car and it bursts into flames and explodes. The remaining Horsemen vow to continue and complete their final performance, stealing a safe made by the same company that made the safe Lionel Shrike died in. Then they perform their one last show at 5 Pointz during which they seemingly vanish into thin air, transforming into loads of money that is showered on the crowd. The money turns out to be fake and the real money is found stashed in Bradley's Range Rover. Bradley is then assumed to be fifth Horseman and arrested, though it appears he was framed.

Rhodes visits Bradley in his cell. Bradley explains the only way the safe could have been removed was if Wilder was still alive but they would have also needed an inside man. Bradley now realizes that Rhodes is the fifth Horseman. Rhodes tells him he wants Bradley to spend the rest of his life in jail.

The Horsemen are now rejoined by Wilder, whose death was staged. They finally meet their benefactor and are surprised to find it is Rhodes. He welcomes them into "The Eye."

Rhodes later meets Dray on the Pont des Arts in France and is revealed to be the son of Lionel Shrike, the magician who drowned years ago. He masterminded and designed the Horsemen plot to obtain revenge on those involved: Bradley, for humiliating his father; the Credit Republicain de Paris and Tressler's company, who refused to pay the insurance on his father's death; and the company that produced the substandard safe used in the trick that led to its failure. Dray, however, decides not to turn him in. When Dray sees the lock with a key that Rhodes magically handed out in front of her eyes, Rhodes proclaimed, "One more secret to lock away". As soon as Dray locks the lock on a chained fence with all of the locks that have been locked, she throws the key into the Seine.

In a post credit scene in the extended cut, The Horsemen are seen arriving at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas. They find crates marked with the sign of the 'Eye'. The movie ends with them looking for the four key cards to open the crates that hold their new equipment.

Cast:

• Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas (The Lovers), an illusionist and the ringleader of the Four Horsemen.
• Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes, an FBI agent called to investigate the bank theft.
• Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney (The Hermit), a mentalist.
• Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves (The High Priestess), an escapist.
• Dave Franco as Jack Wilder (Death), a sleight of hand illusionist.
• Mélanie Laurent as Alma Dray, an Interpol agent who is partnered up with Dylan Rhodes to investigate the bank theft.
• Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley, an ex-magician who makes money by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks.
• Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler, an insurance magnate and the Four Horsemen's sponsor.
• Michael J. Kelly as Agent Fuller
• Common as Evans, Rhodes' supervisor at the FBI.
• David Warshofsky as Agent Cowan, who took over the case from Rhodes later in the film.
• José Garcia as Étienne Forcier, the owner of Credit Republicain de Paris.
• Jessica Lindsey as Hermia, Bradley's assistant.
• Caitriona Balfe as Jasmine Trassler, Tressler's assistant and acquaintance.
• J. Larose as Willy Mears
• Conan O'Brien as Himself
• Elias Koteas as Lionel Shrike, a magician who died of drowning while performing a trick.

Personal Thoughts:

The four horsemen including the FBI agents are all great actors and the tricks/illusions that got performed by the four horsemen really amazed me because they seemed so real as if they were wizards. 

But I have some questions

1. Why did Dylan Rhodes want Thaddeus Bradley locked up in prison? It never said throughout the movie what he did to Rhodes.

2. The four horse men were only four illusionists and not professionals, so how did they learn and perform those stunning tricks?

3. Why would Dylan Rhodes be against them when he is the person in the hoodie?

4. If the four horsemen knew that Jack Wilder was still alive (after the car crash) why would they be so sad about it when they talk to each other about how it was his biggest dream, and why it had to end so early.

Now You See Me- Trailer